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Currently home to the Quannapowitt Players community theatre. 85: Charles Wells House: Charles Wells House: July 19, 1984 : 99 Prescott St. 86: Ephraim Weston House: Ephraim Weston House: July 19, 1984 : 229 West St.
In 1769 the area's first meeting house (church and civic building) was built, giving the area a sense of identity separate from portions of Reading that would later be set off as Wakefield and North Reading. Since then the area has become a focal point for religious and civic institutions in the town.
Reading was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s. In 1693, the town meeting voted to fund public education in Reading, with grants of four pounds for three months school in the town, two pounds for the west end of the town, and one pound for those north of the Ipswich ...
Douglass forced the nation to come face to face with the “immeasurable distance” that separated free whites and enslaved Black people 76 years after the country’s independence, nearly 11 ...
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The Johnsons most famously gave shelter in 1838 to Frederick Douglass when he escaped slavery and his wife Anna Murray-Douglass at their house on 21 Seventh Street. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When Frederick Douglass came to New Bedford, he had the surname Johnson, and Nathan Johnson suggested that he take the surname of Douglas based upon a figure from Walter ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1273 on Friday, December 13, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Friday, December 13, 2024, is BOXER. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
The sortable table below lists each deceased justice's place of burial, along with date of death, and the order of their membership on the Court. Five people served first as associate justices, and later as chief justices, separately: Charles Evans Hughes, [A] William Rehnquist, [B] John Rutledge, [A] Harlan F. Stone, [B] and Edward Douglass White.